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19195. arkymalarky - 4/25/2006 4:21:05 PM Seven pages into an 8 page minimum paper, and I'm just now to the main topic. Editing will be in order, but I do better if I write it first then go back and edit.
Then to start the other one, hopefully knocking out four or five pages of it before morning, and I will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel in this first semester of grad school. I will turn in the one I'm working on now tomorrow night and finish the second up by next week sometime.
I already know my schedule at work and wrt rural education advocacy will be much reduced, starting this summer. After a busy June, grad school will be easier as well, since I got the most time-consuming classes out of the way first--not intentionally, it just worked out that way.
Bob and I plan to celebrate after my twelve 12-hour days in a June seminar by spending at least half of July in Colorado. It's the carrot I keep in front of me at all times. 19196. Macnas - 4/25/2006 4:21:46 PM Come to think of it, "Carolans concerto" would be very good too. 19197. PelleNilsson - 4/25/2006 4:42:35 PM If I were you, iiibbb, I would describe the kind of music I'd want and let my friends come up with some proposals. Having said that - and disregarding "contemporary" - I think that some of Mozart's flute concertos or a section of Vivaldi's "Spring" are fine joyous pieces. Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his 9th symphony is also a rather uplifting. And you would be paying tribute to trans-atlantic cooperation and understanding because it is the anthem of EU. You will of course spend the honeymoon in Paris?
But if you insist on at least semi-contemporary which also the older guests have a relation to, I think you can find fine suitable songs with Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel. 19198. Macnas - 4/25/2006 4:44:57 PM Or there's always the bagpipe. 19199. arkymalarky - 4/25/2006 4:47:44 PM I would've been left at the altar if I'd had a bagpipe in my wedding. I love it, but Bob hates it for some reason I've never understood. And it would have made me cry. Not that there's anything wrong with that. 19200. arkymalarky - 4/25/2006 4:51:36 PM I thik Pelle's idea of getting suggestions from friends is best. One man's wine is another man's cheese, and friends who actually hear what you like would probably be really helpful. I love "We've Only Just Begun," but other people don't at all. 19201. PelleNilsson - 4/25/2006 4:59:31 PM I'm digressing here, but I just thought of Peter Sellers who did a hysterically funny impersonation of Sir Laurence Olivier reading the lyrics of "A Hard Day's Night" in his full Shakespearean mode. 19202. iiibbb - 4/25/2006 5:23:44 PM 19200. arkymalarky - 4/25/2006 4:51:36 PM
I thik Pelle's idea of getting suggestions from friends is best.
Sorta why I'm asking here...
This music is very hard... A lot of nice melodies out there, but when you listen to the words it's all wrong.
P is not into classical so much.
Went to a really good wedding last summer that had a guy do the soundtrack to Shrek... surprisingly good wedding music in that... too bad we can't use the idea. We invited that couple. 19203. Macnas - 4/25/2006 5:40:19 PM Instrumentals iiibbb lad, never mind the words. 19204. PelleNilsson - 4/25/2006 5:51:34 PM But people will think of the lyrics when they hear the song. I think "Bridge over troubled waters" would do nicely and would fit the flute with a soft guitar. And then there is the one with the British girl (old now, though) whose name I always forget on the theme "I'll be there when you need me ... just call my name". 19205. alistairconnor - 4/25/2006 5:52:46 PM And here's to you, Mrs Robinson.
Oh perhaps not. 19206. arkymalarky - 4/25/2006 7:40:05 PM I should have said irl friends, 3i3b, because they hear what you like to listen to. Bob's nephew is a concert violinist and they had a beautiful string quartet of his friends and colleagues at his wedding, which was the most beautiful wedding I've ever been to. His wife is Malaysian and a pianist, and they had the loveliest blend of Eastern and Western features--colors, music, styles, flowers--everything. 19207. Adam Selene - 4/25/2006 7:43:34 PM I wish me a happy birthday,
I wish me a happy birthday,
I wish me a happy birthday,
'cause I turned fift-eeeee!
Wheee! I made it! AARP membership, here I come! 19208. arkymalarky - 4/25/2006 7:52:52 PM Happy birthday Adam!! Hope you have a great landmark day! 19209. judithathome - 4/25/2006 7:58:56 PM Happy Day, Adam...get yourself down to IHOP and get the Senior Grand Slam! 19210. Adam Selene - 4/25/2006 8:16:35 PM Senio discounts at 50? Seems like cheating.... I just got my black belt, still bike 20 miles on the weekend and chase my dog for a mile every day... decent money in my 401 k and a 6 figure salary...and I get special treatment? Just doesn't seem right somehow. 19211. wabbit - 4/25/2006 8:23:08 PM Happy birthday Adam! My discount will kick in in a few more months -- I'm really looking forward to the discount car insurance! 19212. Adam Selene - 4/25/2006 8:31:46 PM I saw an analysis recently - despite the popular image of the downtrodden senior, the richest segment of Americans are those over 60. Yet they get all these special discounts and are one of the lowest-consuming groups... makes no sense. By all economic theory, loss-leaders should go to those most likely to consume more... the younger generation. 19213. Adam Selene - 4/25/2006 8:41:58 PM Sorry - IHOP seniors are 55+ according to their web menu. 19214. wabbit - 4/25/2006 8:48:28 PM I bet that lowest-consuming stat will change...
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